Claire Goldstein

Goldstein shows how the connection between Vaux and Versailles is at the heart of classical style. She retraces the roots of Versailles in Fouquet's short-lived experiment, and destabilises any easy understanding of the court of the Sun King as the origin of French national style.

The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France

Vaux and Versailles

John Dixon Hunt

Michel Conan

Former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies Michel Conan

Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania.

Claire Goldstein

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